DD is 8.5mo and has been great at night since she was born. But in the last 2-3 weeks or so she's been waking at around 3-4am and grizzling. My DP has up to now gone in and cuddled her back to sleep (usually by lying on the single bed in her room). This has become a regular thing now and I really do not want it to continue. I work FT and DP is incredibly precious about his sleep so I have no idea why he has let this continue for so long
Today she woke at 4am. She has cried until 5.30am, at which point I decided I'd had enough and I'm now downstairs, wide awake. I tried the CC approach which just makes her even more hysterical. This morning we've unintentionally fallen into CIO - because it seemed kinder to let her calm down and just grizzle sporadically, than go in and re-start the whole hysterical wailing cycle all over again.
I don't feel happy with the CIO label because all I've read implies that it is cruel. So why does it feel like the kindest thing to do? We absolutely HAVE to break this and giving in just isn't an option.
What the hell do I do?
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CC just makes it worse. CIO seems to have just happened.
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stowsettler · 13/11/2013 05:41
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